Dunnett Heads Association of International Education Administrators

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Stephen C. Dunnett, vice provost for international education at the University at Buffalo, assumed the position of president of the Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA) during the association's annual conference held recently in Washington.

AIEA, a membership organization formed in November 1982, is composed of institutional leaders engaged in advancing the international dimensions of higher education. Many of its 400 members are the chief international education officers at their institutions.

Dunnett, also a professor of learning and instruction in the UB Graduate School of Education, was appointed to the AIEA Executive Committee in 2002, having previously served on it from 1997-99. He was president-elect in 2004-05.

The Secretariat, or administrative headquarters of AIEA, was based at UB from 1999 to 2004 when the late Timothy J. Rutenber, former associate vice provost for international education, served as its director.

When he was appointed UB vice provost in 1991, Dunnett was among the first international educators in the United States to be appointed as chief international education officer at the vice-provostal level. A UB faculty member since 1971, he also is the founder and director of UB's English Language Institute.

Dunnett is a resident of Williamsville.